Open Source Contract Job Trends in Essex

Open Source
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Open Source skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 14 26
Rank change year-on-year -15 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Open Source 7 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 2.57% 4.85% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 5.15% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 £315 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £321 -
Median % change year-on-year +77.36% - -
75th Percentile £590 £400 -
90th Percentile £600 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £361 £681
% change year-on-year +52.49% -47.05% +36.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

Open Source falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 213 97 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 78.31% 94.17% 82.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 48 94
10th Percentile £300 £187 £194
25th Percentile £350 £309 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £505 £478 £560
90th Percentile £588 £515 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £440
% change year-on-year - +13.77% -9.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 20 51
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.08 £17.47 £24.38
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.83 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% -59.96% +17.67%
75th Percentile £35.53 £44.90 £80.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £128.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £32.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +1.14% -20.90% +90.48%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Open Source relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Open Source job vacancy trend in Essex

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Open Source.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Open Source

Open Source
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Open Source.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Open Source

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the Essex region over the 6 months to 26 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basildon -5 6 £535 +69.84%
Brentwood 0 5 £500 +25.00%
Open Source
East of England

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 7 (100.00%) JUnit
1 7 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 6 (85.71%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Automotive
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) GCP Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) GCP Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (28.57%) GCP Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Java Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Java Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Software Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) GCP Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
1 7 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (42.86%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 7 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Application Security
2 6 (85.71%) BDD
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) Static Application Security Testing
2 6 (85.71%) TDD
3 5 (71.43%) Architectural Design
4 4 (57.14%) SDLC
5 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 3 (42.86%) Process Improvement
5 3 (42.86%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (42.86%) Software Architecture
5 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Agile
6 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
6 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Go
2 3 (42.86%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 7 (100.00%) Google